Carnaval

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Runtime

1h 4m

Director

Tod Browning

Cast

Harry Earles, Edgar Allan Woolf, Olga Baclanova

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Cast

Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Walter Salles

Cast

Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Paulo Morelli

Cast

Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

José Padilha

Cast

Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro